Predictive Web Applications Productionalize Data Science

A data scientist generates organizational value by building web apps that take machine learning models into production.

Here’s an example of a predictive web application that you build in this course.

New Product Prediction Application (created in this course)

This web application empowers business people to make data-driven decisions by more consistently pricing products. The application incorporates:

• Shiny – A web application framework with UI components that are reactive to user input.
• Flexdashboard – A dashboarding framework that is built on top of RMarkdown.
• parsnip and XGBoost – Machine learning models used to predict product prices.

Most importantly, business people can use the application to improve the consistency of new product prices based on an existing product portfolio thanks to the power of Machine Learning!